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To: .Trev who wrote (393)	2/10/1999 7:07:00 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 472

I have to tell you that I am sick of having to make excuses for people who refuse to do anything for themselves except steal, or worse. Even though the people in India/Pakistan are poor, they have an ancient culture and religion, are hard-working and have skills. Here, they have developed a culture of being victims, as they have been encouraged to do --- the world simply owes them. So, depending on their degree of anger and frustration, they either do nothing, or petty crime or major, violence-related stuff. At every level the ANC government condones them and blames whites --- past, present and future --- for all black short-comings. It's absolutely nauseating. And with it all is a smug self-righteousness and an over-dose of Political correctness. At an academic level, the major concern is to take out any and every Eurocentric influence. They are seriously trying to substitute a synthetic form of African culture because very little actually exists. President-elect Mbeki mouthes off about African Renaissance --- yet all one can see in most of Africa is war, pestilence, corruption and filth. Any white who mentions it is immediately labelled a non- "transformer" and a hater of blacks! I've just read a book about completely different things from all this rubbish --- "The Pinball Effect" by James Burke. As an engineer and thinker you will enjoy it. In fact any intelligent person would.